They were arrested in a country where Fulani herdsmen carry AK47, slaughtering people without anyone arresting them. They were arrested and thrown into prison in the North, in a country where after the slaughter of villages Miyetti Allah takes responsibility without any of them being arrested.
Nigeria is a ter*rible place to be. We are n*ot safe in Nigeria. Recently, these youths, after staying in Kanji for years without seeing the inside of a court, were flown to Abuja and arraigned in court without a lawyer to represent them. The information I got stated that they were told to plead guilty so that they will be given a lesser sentence. They agreed because the prison alone has broken them. Some of them no longer remember things. They knew they are Igbo but they can no longer remember their state or village. They pleaded guilty, and as they were pleading guilty the judge kept sentencing them between 40 years and 25 years imprisonment. Not until it reached the turn of the man that kept telling himself in a dark cell that he will not die. He looked at the judge and pleaded not guilty. The judge asked again and he pleaded not guilty. He looked at him and said he should be remanded in Kuje Prison. That was how those that followed after him continued to plead not guilty. Those that pleaded not guilty were taken to Kuje Prison, while those that pleaded guilty were flown back to Wawa Prison, probably to go and die. They were played.
What I am writing here is not the ordeal of animals. These guys are humans taken from their homes and shops. They committed no crime but are being treated like animals. Their crime is asking for a referendum. Their crime is being in a country where they are hated for being Igbo. A country where Elochukwu Ohagi, who is a teacher and a writer, is viewed as dangerous while nothing is done to Fulani herdsmen terrorists wiping off villages.
At this juncture I ask the Nigerian president, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to look into the cases of Igbo youths languishing in Wawa Prison in Niger State. I call on the United Nations Human Rights and Amnesty International to look into the cases of these Igbo youths languishing in prison in Northern Nigeria. Prison is not for innocent people asking for a referendum. Prison is for criminals and terrorists. Dearest President Donald J. Trump, we call on you to come to the rescue of the Igbo people. Even I, as a teacher and activist in Nigeria, am not safe. We are being hunted for writing and speaking up.
To you reading me, never say it doesn't concern me. Do not forget that whatever goes around comes around. It might be innocent IPOB members today, it might be you tomorrow. No one deserves what these Igbo youths are passing through. No, no one. It is 3 years after President Buhari left power, it is time for these Igbo youths to be set free.
Let the targeting of Igbo youths end.
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Elochukwu Ohagi, Philosopher, Teacher and Activist, 2026.
@KadunaResident He was on the path of righteousness, doing that which elated God and men. Until he sold his soul, conscience, and loyalty to Mammon. What a fall!
Isaiah 41:10
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